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Camp Kościuszko
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Camp Kościuszko is the US V Corps' Forward Operating Station Poznań (FOS Poznań), Poland[1] also denoted V Corps Headquarters (Forward). Forward Operating Station Poznań is the permanent headquarters for V Corps (Forward), which was announced in June 2022 by US President Joe Biden,[2] as the eastern flank of the NATO alliance.[3][4] The first permanent change of station (PCS) to Camp Kościuszko took place in February 2023.[5] IMCOM-Europe took responsibility for the garrison on 21 March 2023.[6]

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FOS Poznań was renamed Camp Kościuszko on 30 July 2022,[7][1][a][3] for Thaddeus Kosciuszko (Tadeusz Kościuszko), a hero of the American Revolutionary War who is commemorated in the US and Poland.[b]

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  1. The approximate American pronunciation:kosh-CHUUS(H)-koh
  2. During World War II a Camp Tadeusz Kościuszko was established in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada from 1941 to 1942, for training members of the Polish Army and Air Force.[8]

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